{"id":120390,"date":"2023-07-11T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120390"},"modified":"2023-07-11T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:42:36","slug":"northampton-county-accepting-applications-for-public-safety-grants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120390","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Accepting Applications for Public Safety Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will accept applications for 2023 Public Safety Grants beginning on July 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0through September 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Grants are available to Northampton County\u2019s municipal and volunteer Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organizations. The grants can be used for capital improvements, vehicle purchase, equipment purchase and training.\u00a0Eligible organizations can apply for up to $20,000 per application or project.<\/p>\n<p>Approvals are scheduled to be announced in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile not a core County responsibility, we feel a moral obligation to provide support to fire departments and EMS services across the length and breadth of the County when our budget so permits,\u201d says Lamont McClure.<\/p>\n<p>Interested organizations can apply by visiting the Northampton County Participant Portal hosted by Neighborly Software at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001ELFKsDwmB-3fV2csx09JSQTYOscmI96tI1oKpPZfoMmfue_rfc9HiOSpnlVQmNhl1PYu5K_LclP_o31UBzJyJe92A3mzsKeroGv2DxY7xtJuIfypihDiNwGxGDWcQab9vRPoIFBNGbhGs1hXYJAAjkvdPsSnVsCq1oekpCi-S4Ley1Ee5rToay_iQtlNq_42eaKIhLeGXJ0b_i9lfd3mcA==&amp;c=BPApozDn4ds2BM9MSrCoTYpKCHgl0SL-quzHQyhfsqQ4wx2av4LT-Q==&amp;ch=sWLVgcKcGzhKtWdfIozUwOEI0OZcf0OrfapWa5J7niXI1xA5uJGYQQ==\"><strong>https:\/\/portal.neighborlysoftware.com\/NORTHAMPTONCOUNTYPA\/participant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Registration is required on the Participant Portal in order to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Program inquiries should be directed to:<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Department of Community &amp; Economic Development<br \/>\nSarah Ortiz<br \/>\n610-829-6308<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sortiz@norcopa.gov\">sortiz@norcopa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBrittney Waylen<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration &amp; Public Information Officer<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will accept applications for 2023 Public Safety Grants beginning on July 24th\u00a0through September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County Accepting Applications for Public Safety Grants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Northampton-county-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}